No More Parades

“There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.”
—W. H. Auden

“The finest novel about the First World War.”
—Anthony Burgess

Ford Madox Ford’s No More Parades offers a bracing portrait of war’s moral and emotional wreckage, centered on Christopher Tietjens—a man striving to uphold a code of honor in a world already collapsing. Moving between the trenches and the drawing rooms of a fading Edwardian society, Ford renders private anguish with striking precision and irony. Elegant, unsettling, and deeply humane, the novel captures both a civilization under strain and a conscience struggling to endure. The second volume of the Parade’s End tetralogy and a cornerstone of modernist fiction, it stands as both a powerful war novel and a penetrating study of love, honor, and resilience. This Warbler Classics edition faithfully reproduces the original 1925 text and includes a detailed biographical timeline.

FORD MADOX FORD (1873–1939) was born Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer in Kent, England. He was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose influential journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review promoted the work of such writers as Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and D. H. Lawrence. Ford is best known for The Good Soldier, the Parade’s End tetralogy, and the The Fifth Queen trilogy.